Susan Stryker - Historia de lo trans

2017, Spanish, Susan Stryker,

Original title: "Historia de lo trans" (History of Trans) is the Spanish language edition of "Transgender History" by Susan Stryker.

When and how is the term transsexual created? Who has fought in the North American context when it comes to obtaining rights for people who leave gender norms, are transvestites, transsexuals, or non-binary? How is the memory of trans people made?, What leaders promoted other ways of understanding gender transgressions? What social challenges arise thanks to the experiences of trans people and their activism?

Historia de lo trans presents, through a critical and decolonial vision, the key moments of a political and cultural movement that has questioned the bases of feminism and the conceptual frameworks of LGBT struggles. In this tour, we find exciting biographies of the protagonists of trans struggles, inserted in the history of gender theory, and the book shows how they have been shaping our global story.

Here are narrated the battles that have been fought from the body; in language, academia, law, medicine and also in the streets, with episodes such as the Stonewall riot or the Compton's cafeteria riots. Written by the American transsexual activist and theorist Susan Stryker, this essay does not avoid the intersections of race, social class, migrations, or functional diversity. With a prologue by Lucas Platero, doctor in Sociology, teacher, researcher, and activist for LGTBQ rights. Translation by Matilde Pérez and María Teresa Sánchez.

According to Wikipedia, Susan O'Neal Stryker (born in 1961) is an American associate professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist, known for her work on gender and human sexuality and for founding the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. She is the author of several books on LGBTQ history and culture.

Interviewed by the Berkeley University blog, she indicated that from her earliest memory, she always felt that she was a girl even though she had a male body at birth, but she didn’t start coming out publicly as a transgender woman until the late 80s. A few years later, in 1992, she co-founded with Anne Ogborn, Transgender Nation, a direct-action activist group that grew out of the San Francisco chapter of Queer Nation, a New York-based LGBTQ activist organization.

Throughout her career, she has always sought to use her experience and education to lend power to the trans community, be a good ally, and share how others may do the same. In her interview for Them, she said: "“To make that gender transition, you confront the possibilities and potentials and terrors and dangers of what it means to radically transform,” she says."

“It's kind of like saying, ‘Look, I know that combating climate change means we need to have a really different relationship to consumption and pleasure, and movements and relationality. You know what? As a trans person, I got you.’” “It's like saying, ‘This is possible. Look at me.’”"

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